UAE used car market, October 2026

This is the first monthly snapshot of the UAE used car market on Cars Oracle. It describes the listings active in our index of Dubizzle on 7 October 2026, the day our latest complete sweep of the site finished (the data date of this report). Nothing here comes from a dealer survey or a press release. Every figure is a count of listings.

The point of a monthly report is the comparison it allows next month. On its own, one snapshot tells you the size and shape of the market. It does not tell you whether prices are rising. Read it as a baseline.

October 2026 at a glance

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Every price in this report is an asking price. An asking price can leave room to negotiate, and what a car finally sells for is not published anywhere we can read. A listing that disappears from Dubizzle may have been sold, or the seller may have given up and taken it down.

What the AED 77,000 median covers

The median asking price of GCC-spec cars was AED 77,000². Half of those listings asked more, half asked less. That figure mixes everything, an old hatchback with a cracked dashboard and a new G-Class still under warranty, so it is not the price of any car you might want.

We keep it because it is a useful thermometer for the market as a whole. If it moves next month, it can move for two reasons: sellers changed their prices, or the mix of cars on sale changed (more supercars listed, for example, would push it up without any single car getting more expensive). The November report will say which of the two it was where the data allows.

The median uses GCC-spec cars only, 26,692 listings² out of the 35,997¹ in the index. GCC-spec cars are the ones built for the Gulf and first sold here. Imports from the US or Japan are priced on different terms, often with a history you cannot easily check, and mixing them in would blur the figure. They are still counted in the listing totals and in the model rankings below.

Where the listings come from: brands by country

Grouping brands by the country they come from gives a quick picture of what the UAE drives second-hand.

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Japanese brands lead with 29.6% of listings³, with German brands close behind at 26.8%⁴. Between them they account for more than half of everything for sale^3,4. The German share is carried here by Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, which fill five of the ten most listed models^{13,14,16,17,19}.

American brands hold 14.4%⁵. The Jeep Wrangler is the only American model among the most listed¹⁵, so the rest of that share is spread over many models.

British brands, at 9.3%⁶, are mostly Land Rover in practice. The Range Rover and the Range Rover Sport both sit among the most listed models^12,18.

Chinese brands reach 7.2% of listings⁸, which already puts them ahead of Korean brands at 5.4%⁹. Treat the Chinese figure as a floor. Several newer Chinese makes (TANK, XPeng, Xiaomi, Avatr, Kaiyi and Soueast among them) did not match our brand map this month, so their listings were counted under “other”. The real Chinese share is therefore a little higher than shown. If you are looking at these brands, our Chinese cars page goes brand by brand.

The “other” group, 7.3%⁷, is mostly Italian and French: Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati and Alfa Romeo on one side, Peugeot and Renault on the other, plus Volvo, Skoda and the unmapped makes mentioned above.

The most listed models in October

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These counts include every spec, GCC and imported, priced within the range described in “How we measured”.

Large SUVs dominate the top of the list

The Nissan Patrol is the most listed model in the country with 983 active listings¹⁰, ahead of the Toyota Land Cruiser at 733¹¹. Which of the two to buy is a long-running argument among Gulf buyers, and on supply alone the Patrol wins this month. That says nothing yet about which one holds its value better. A larger stock on sale can mean more owners selling, or just more of them on the road. If you are choosing between the two, put them side by side in the comparison tool, which sets their full cost of ownership next to each other, and look at each model page for asking prices by year.

Behind them come the Range Rover with 625 listings¹², the G-Class with 569¹³ and the Wrangler with 519¹⁵. The Range Rover Sport adds another 451¹⁸. Body-on-frame off-roaders and large luxury SUVs make up most of the most listed models, which is the pattern the table shows.

Mercedes-Benz in the list

Mercedes-Benz appears in the list with the G-Class¹³, the C-Class¹⁴, the E-Class¹⁶ and the S-Class¹⁹. No other brand has as many entries. Its sedans cover the whole range, from the C-Class with 532 listings¹⁴ to the S-Class with 438¹⁹.

A sports car in the list

The Porsche 911 shows 464 active listings¹⁷, more than the Range Rover Sport¹⁸ or the S-Class¹⁹. A sports car in a list of the ten most listed models says the top end of the UAE used market has real depth, and the “other” group is where the Ferraris and Lamborghinis sit. For a buyer in that segment, the practical consequence is choice. There are enough 911s listed to compare the same generation across several sellers before making an offer.

What is not in the list

The list holds no Toyota Camry, Corolla or Nissan Sunny. Japanese brands hold 29.6% of listings³, yet only two of the ten most listed models are Japanese^10,11. The rest of that share sits in models with fewer listings than the S-Class at 438¹⁹, spread across many nameplates and model years. A model outside this list is not a rare car.

Change since the previous sweep

Our previous complete sweep of Dubizzle finished on 5 October 2026²⁰. Between that sweep and the latest one, the number of unique listings found rose by 402²⁰.

We would not read anything into that yet. The gap between the two sweeps is a couple of days, and a single large dealer refreshing its stock could account for a change of that size. This comparison is also made on the raw count of unique listings each sweep found, which is a different count from the active-listings total in the first table, so the two do not reconcile and should not be set side by side. From November onwards this section will compare month with month, which is the comparison that matters for a buyer.

What a listing count can and cannot tell you

A count of active listings measures supply: how many cars of a kind are on sale at one moment. It does not measure sales, and it does not measure popularity with new car buyers.

A high count works in a buyer’s favour in one clear way. More listings of the same model mean more sellers competing for the same buyer, and more data to judge a fair price. The same count can also hide cars that sit unsold for weeks because they are overpriced. This report does not yet track how long listings stay online, so it cannot separate the two cases. Each model page does show the median number of days its listings have been online, which is the place to check before you negotiate.

Some listings come from dealers and some from private sellers. They are counted together in this report. Dealer prices may include a warranty or service package that a private sale does not, which is one more reason to compare listings of the same model and year rather than relying on any average.

What this means if you are buying

The rule we would use: if the model you want has hundreds of active listings, do not pay the first asking price you see without checking it on the Check a seller’s price page. If it has only a handful, accept that the price is less certain, widen the search to neighbouring model years and check a close rival before committing.

In practice, for a buyer this month:

1. Start from the model, not from the market median. AED 77,000² is the middle of the whole market, not the value of your car. Open the model page instead, for example the Nissan Patrol page or the Toyota Land Cruiser page, which show asking prices by model year.
2. If your model is in the table above, you are in a strong position. Shortlist several listings of the same year and spec, check each one on the Check a seller’s price page, and open below the asking price. The deals page lists dealer cars priced well below the median of comparable listings, rechecked through the day.
3. Stay with GCC spec unless you know exactly what you are buying. Imported cars are priced on different terms and are left out of our median for that reason.
4. Count the running costs before the purchase price. Insurance and fuel for a Patrol or a G-Class are not the bill you pay for a C-Class. The running-costs page adds depreciation, financing, insurance, maintenance, fuel, Salik tolls and registration into a five-year total and a monthly figure, and the budget tool ranks the models within your budget by what they cost to own.
5. If you are considering a Chinese brand, read the Chinese cars page first. The brands are newer here, some have few listings, and resale data is thinner than for Toyota or Nissan.

How we measured

The data date is 7 October 2026, when our latest complete sweep of Dubizzle UAE finished. The listing totals cover active listings priced within the bounds set out on our methodology page (AED 3,000 to AED 3,000,000, which removes placeholder prices and obvious errors): 35,997 listings¹.

The median asking price uses GCC-spec listings only, 26,692 of them². Brand shares group every active listing by the country of origin of its brand, using our brand map; makes that did not match the map are counted as “other”, which is why the Chinese share is understated this month. Model counts include all specs. The change since the previous sweep compares the unique listings found in the two most recent complete sweeps that ran without errors, on 5 October 2026 and 7 October 2026²⁰. It is a raw count of unique listings, not the filtered total used elsewhere in this report.

All prices are asking prices. A figure based on fewer than ten listings is never published, and the full method is on the methodology page.